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• Camiel VAN AUDENAERDE, Lissewege,8380,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 2009)
• Cornelia Johanna van Staalduinen, 's-Gravenzande († 1990)
• Cornelia Antonia Maria Leijten, Mierlo (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1945)
• Clarence De Young, Lucas, Richland, Missaukee, Michigan († 1993)
• Anna Luise Faßbender, Lüftelberg, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1958)
• Antonia Petronella (Toos) Post, Winschoten († 2008)
• Adriana Maria Schepers, Nispen († 2009)
• Adriana Maria Schepers, Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2009)
• Albertje Kiers, Wapse (Diever) († 2017)
• Anna Cornelia Baars, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Casper Freling (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adrianus Albertus Stuurman (71), Deventer
• Arend Bouwes Bloemhof (69), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Clasina van NIELEN (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna SMITH ** (5), New York, New York
• Anna Catharina Strasters (81), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Van Der Meij (79), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Kuijk (55), Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Bouwes Bloemhof (69), Tietjerkstradeel
• Cornelis Mooij (77)

• 1923 » Rose Marie, American actress and singer († 2017)
• 1924 » Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist († 2016)
• 1924 » Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist († 2016)
• 1924 » Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1924 » Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese production designer, art director, and fashion designer († 2009)
• 1925 » Bill Pinkney, American singer (The Drifters) († 2007)
• 1925 » Erik Schmidt, Swedish-Estonian painter and author († 2014)
• 1925 » Mike Connors, American actor and producer († 2017)
• 1925 » Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer († 2007)
• 1925 » Rose Maddox, American singer-songwriter and fiddle player († 1998)

• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
• 1928 » Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on August 15, 1924 was between 9.0 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.